CVE-2023-2861 (GCVE-0-2023-2861)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-06 06:19
Modified
2024-08-02 06:33
Severity ?
6.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Summary
A flaw was found in the 9p passthrough filesystem (9pfs) implementation in QEMU. The 9pfs server did not prohibit opening special files on the host side, potentially allowing a malicious client to escape from the exported 9p tree by creating and opening a device file in the shared folder.
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